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To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state and local governments rely on fuel taxes, which raise more than US$80 billion a year and pay for around three-quarters of what the U.S. spends on building new roads and maintaining them.
I recently purchased an electric car, the Tesla Model 3. While swerving down a particularly rutted highway in New York, the economist in me began to wonder, what will happen to the roads as fewer and fewer cars run on gasoline? Who will pay to fix the streets?
Will toll roads become universal to bridge the funding gap?
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How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:34PM (1 child)
Anything that involves GPS and "the state" is a no go.
There are other ways to do mileage counts, like the odometer on a car, or just simply a tax on tires. These also have the benefits of the state on spying on you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:15PM
I live near Canada, we already go over the border to get some drugs that are over-the-counter there (and prescription in USA). If a big US tire tax was levied, I'd by tires in Canada too.